Work related injury during resignation period. (employee, employer, job, fulltime)

[SteveFlhx]

If an employee is obligated under the terms stated in the Employee Handbook (EH) ie. to give an amount of notice equal to or greater than the employees accrued vacation time or any accrued vacation time exceeding the amount of notice given will be forfeited. Are/is there no upper limit to amount of time/notice an employee must give ?
For example: I worked fulltime and had 6 weeks ( 240 hrs) accrued time, then I was reduced to part time (20hrs/wk) which doubled my 6 weeks to (480hrs) accrued time to 12 weeks accrued.
I have an offer from another employer but am needed to commit to no greater that 30 days from time of acceptance.

Also, the EH also states that any personal, sick or vacation time taken during the resignation period must either be added onto the notice time or will be deducted from any payable accrued time.
Is this legal and could any work related injury time lost from work during the resignation period subject to these terms?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[RoadWarrior12]

Just forfeit the accrued time and start the new job.

[joe from dayton]

The paying of vacation time is voluntary in most states (might be a California exception) as long as the employer complies with their own policies.

[MidValleyDad]

Why not take the accrued vacation and work the new job while on vacation. Then when the vacation time is reduced give notice.

[SteveFlhx]

I am a one-person dept..I could not possibly take more than one week ( 5 consecutive days).

[ToraG]

Just take a week vacation.... then call out sick. No biggie, what are they gonna do, fire you?